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HERBERT WESTREN TURNBULL
1885-1961
Professor H. W. Turnbull, F.R.S., was born on August 31, 1885 and died at Grasmere last May in his seventy-sixth year.
He joined the Alpine Club in 1931, after extensive climbing at home in the English Lake District and in Scotland, and with four good seasons in the Alps. Up to the outbreak of the War in I 939 he was in Switzerland most years; he was out again in the AIps in 1948 and his last real climbing visit was in 1949. Besides climbing in Switzerland, he did a little in Norway and Austria, and in 1950 he had the opportunity of making some climbs in the American Rockies.
His major ascents include Lenzspitze, Rimpfischhorn, Monte Rosa, Matterhorn, Dent Blanche, Combin de Corbassiere, Aiguilles Rouges d' Arolla, Zinal-Rothorn, Mont Blanc, and Aletschhorn (tr.).
He came to Scotland in 1921 as Regius Professor of Mathematics at St. Andrews University, having already won notable distinction whilst up at Cambridge. He climbed, thereafter, extensively in the Glencoe area and Ben Nevis, most of his home climbing being with the late J. Y. Macdonald of St. Andrews, with whom he did some first ascents. He and Macdonald for many years did a great deal to keep the St.Andrews Mountaineering Club in action.
He served on the Committee of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and was Vice-President of that Club from 1946 - 1948, and President from 1948-50.
He was a most distinguished mathematician and published over sixty papers, and founded a school of study which, through younger men, has now moved over to more abstract mathematical studies. His name will be associated with certain text-books on determinants and matrices.
He was the author of a small book entitled The Great Mathematicians, published in 1929, and he discovered hitherto unknown documents relating to the work of the Scottish mathematician James Gregory, 1638 - 75. He was able to complete the James Gregory Tercentenary Memorial volume in time for the celebrations which took the form of an International Congress of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in July 1938, in which, as host and participant, he was the central figure. He retired from St. Andrews University in 1950 so as to undertake for the Royal Society the project of editing the Correspondence of Sir lsaac Newton, and at his death had published the first two volumes. Apart from his activities as a mathematician and as a mountaineer, Turn bull was a pianist of very considerable merit. In character, he was retiring and quiet; as a mountaineer, although lightly built, he was an excellent goer, with immense spirit and quite fearless when attacking any difficulty.
Alexander Harrison
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 66, 1961, Seite 422-423


Geboren am:
1885
Gestorben am:
1961